Avoriaz 4 - 1 Grilled
Weather conditions were fairly good for football at the stadium today. They fielded:
Almeida -
Busetto,
Bonilla,
Lamolina -
Trevisan,
Blanchet,
De Gregori,
Di Federico -
Fontelas,
Kristiansson,
Herger.
The following players had been selected:
Germanakos -
Panigrahi,
Hutter -
Ferzan,
Thach,
Keng Chuan,
An Keng,
Baena -
Ze Han,
Xin Seng,
Chitre.
The teams had chosen different formations for the match. The home team, AS Avoriaz, went for a 3-4-3, while Grilled Birds has decided to play a 2-5-3 lineup. Avoriaz went for a narrow approach, using their world class (13) ability to focus their attacks down the middle. Grilled seemed to prefer attacking in the middle, using their world class (13) ability to great effect. The 6 minute mark saw the home team take a 1 - 0 lead after a breaking through on the left. The scorer for Avoriaz was
Billy Kristiansson. Things were going from bad to worse for the visitors.
Vincenzo Trevisan was able to squirm through the central defense after 7 minutes and score, bringing the lead to 2 - 0. A magnificent combination in the middle resulted in Avoriaz's
Tonio Di Federico bringing the lead up to 3 - 0. Grilled were determined to attack in the middle, even their wing attacks ended up coming through the center. The crowd roared its approval when
Avelino Almeida somehow managed to block what seemed to be a certain goal by Grilled's
Lim An Keng 21 minutes into the match. Avoriaz's defense sent a ball soaring up the middle on a beautiful counter-attack with 22 minutes gone, but
Billy Kristiansson's finish was met by the firm hands of the keeper. Big paper red cards were being held up by the opposing supporters with 27 minutes on the clock after
Agust�n Lamolina's mistimed tackle from behind. The referee only showed the Avoriaz player a yellow card though. Halftime score was 3 - 0. Let's go to the Twittersphere to see what the fans think of the game so far! says After 46 minutes, the Grilled coach wanted to see a new face on the field, waving
Moey Xin Seng off.
Kalki Parvathaneni took his place. Grilled never say die, and though it wasn't a pretty goal,
Gandhik Chitre offered the visiting fans a glimmer of hope after 55 minutes. That makes it 3 - 1. Grilled's
Aw Keng Chuan was shown a yellow card after 60 minutes for slicing down an opponent.
Grilled players heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their wing attacks to the middle instead. With 66 minutes played,
Enrique Baena had a fantastic opportunity to reply but his shot from the middle nicked the post and went out. Avoriaz had a good opportunity to attack on the wing, but remembered their instructions to go for middle instead. 69 minutes into the match, the visitors' central line of defense had to look on as
Erwin Herger ran straight through, knocking one home to make it 4 - 1 for Avoriaz. With the clock showing 70 minutes, the fourth official held up the substitution board.
Aw Keng Chuan looked to see that it was his number in red, so he made his way over to the sideline and swapped out for
Chia Kwang Tse, though he would have liked to continue. Grilled kept trying to force their way through on the right side and
Enrique Baena got his chance after 70 minutes, but the home side's defense held their position and stopped the attack. The fourth official announced that there would be 2 minutes of stoppage time, giving fans a slim hope that their team could get one more attack in before this was all over.
Kalki Parvathaneni had a good opportunity to reply with a break through the middle, but the home team's goalkeeper
Avelino Almeida just wouldn't be beat. The match ends 4 - 1. Now to our celebrity commentator for a hot take. Over to you, Snoop!
Erwin Herger performed admirably for Avoriaz. Speaking of stinking up the place,
Avelino Almeida sure smelled like the bottom of Batman's shoe after a night of crimefighting in Gotham. Grilled's top performer was clearly
Chan Ze Han. I can't remember
Bhavya Panigrahi ever having a worse night than he just had.